This paper proposes an analysis of Mandarin Chinese negation in which bu 'not' is an adverb in Spec,AuxP or Spec,VP which may occur only with unbounded aspectual situations and which must cliticize to ...

Johan Brandtler, David Håkansson, Not on the edge: The syntax and pragmatics of clause-initial negation in Swedish, The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (July 2014), pp.